Walk dogs around the shelter to give them time out of their kennels. Volunteers also help with enrichment toys to then be distributed to dogs in their kennels and basic training. Volunteers attend orientation and shadow one of our volunteers.
We often need volunteers to provide an essential customer service, grounds maintenance, and event assistance.
Volunteers help to unload, organize, package, and distribute food for families in the community.
Volunteers help as carpenters, organizers, cleaners, costumers, painters, sales folk, tech support, thespians, and more.
Walking dogs at our shelter. Volunteers must be over 18 years old to volunteer with the rescue, or 16 years old with parental content, and must be comfortable around dogs.
Assisting with routine cleaning at the shelter (i.e. laundry, mopping, washing dog bowls, etc). Maintenance at the shelter (i.e. power washing kennels, building shelves, etc).
The process is similar to the adoption process: vet check, reference check, home visit, and a meet and greet with the dog! We provide any necessary medical treatments, monthly heartworm, food, and any medication that is needed. Foster parents have to bring their foster dog to adoption events 2 to 4 times a month (typically…
Join the Social Media Team. Public Facebook page administrator – post updates, events, keep the public engaged. Twitter admin –on behalf of LDDR, forward or answer questions Instagram admin. YouTube content.
Become a Communications Team member Newsletter – weekly and monthly. Needs Rescue Email Coordinator Needs Foster Email Coordinator
Nothing beats the feeling of witnessing the look on a dogs face when he realizes he’s on his way to a better life. Be part of that experience by joining the Transport Team. Transport for dogs from Toledo at 5:30pm to Farmington Hills at 8:00pm on Thursday nights each week. Even if you can only…